Saturday, April 11, 2009

McBride & Draper: A Match Made in Hell

Number Ten are seeking to play down the seriousness of McBridge-Gate, describing it as juvenile. The Telegraph and the BBC have fallen for the spin. No matter. They will revise their opinions when they see the contents of the emails which will presumably be published in tomorrow's newspapers.

Downing Street also played down the planned website RED RAG, which, they say, never saw the light of day. Really? Dizzy has proved otherwise. There's no content on it, but it's registered and ready for lift off. The fact that they even thought such a site was a good idea and could remain secret says it all really.

Damian McBride is a special advisor, paid by the taxpayer. He is not paid to smear Tories. He's paid to give advice to the Prime Minister.

By chance, I met Derek Draper in Dean's Yard recently, after his appearance with Guido on the DAILY POLITICS. He wanted to be friends again. I explained that I couldn't have a professional or personal relationship with someone who behaves as he has done and insinuated that I hold racist views. I then asked him about receiving emails from Damian McBride. He denied to my face that these emails existed. There's a word for that. It's called lying. I wonder what a professional psychotherapist would make of it.

ToryBear has put this short video together which shows Draper denying that Damian McBride had ever had any input into LabourList. Fingered.

Most people don't read political blogs and would not hear of any slurs or allegations which are made on them unless the mainstream media report it.

Therefore I would contest the point that either the BBC or Telegraph are unaware of the full facts of this case or have been taken in by it. The fact that both organisations have moved to kill the story so quickly would seem more to me to point to their complicity.

Labour would not take the risk of such an smear operation unless all the pieces were in place, and that must include at least some of the MSM.

I've just read the damage-limitation exercise in The Telegraph.Nauseating. I was particularly sickened by the spiteful profile of Guido by Andrew Pierce,which is in contrast to a milder view of Draper.I bought a copy of the paper today, but never again.

What is Gordon's definition of Britishness - decency and fair play? The time has come for all decent and fair-minded members of the Labour party to stand up for Britishness and break ranks against the corrupt practices of their leader. Do they really want to go down in history as bystanders to criminality? What will they tell their children - "I was only following orders" - "I didn't know what was going on"?

Such a treat that as well as being so low, corrupt and venal, they are also utterly stupid and incompetent, and with regard to the internet, witless. The fact that they can deny the existence of the red rag website shows that for sure.

Can't wait for the emails. And is it not illegal to use Number 10 for Labour Party purposes?

As for Dolly,

Well goodbye, Dolly, goodbye, Dolly,It was great to have you back just one last time, Your lies, Dolly, Your conceit, Dolly, Takes the biscuit just so well.

If their was nothing in this story we would not have seen the rapid rebuttal unit leaning on their fellow travelers at the telegraph and BBC jumping in to dampen the flames and we would not have seen an immediate apology from downing street. Please can somebody get a camera in front of draper and sell the footage to Sky News so we can see it down here in NZ

It's the content of the mails that will make or break this story. If Guido has them and if they are clearly damning, I wonder why he doesn't publish them.

What's also interesting is how he got hold of them. Is this the Downing Street mole again? I woder if the police will get involved. There may be a public interest defence, but again, that will depend on the content of the mails.

Will this give the impetus for the Labour Party to replace the current administration? A face-saving way of not admitting Brown himself was a mistake, just his team are intolerable? Or don't they have anyone who will make the sacrifice of leading a losing team?

It works in Guido's favour that someone leaked separately to Iain. But it sounds as though both leaks were about the same time period back in January.

A leak in the Labour ranks.....of course there is, its the plant the Tories put in there in the 80`s to reek havoc when the moment is right. So far the `plant` has been doing a fantastic job of buggering everything up...who is it?....

I just hope that this is final chapter in this sleaze ridden, UK destroying government, but before they go I hope there is a public enquiry, open to all evidence except the ID’s of our soldiers and agents to keep them safe, so we will finally have the real reason why Tony Blair, with A Campbell help and advice along with his Cabinet, Gordon Brown included took us to war in Iraq on what appears to be lies?When that happens we will see who is responsible for the deaths of our soldiers and the Iraqis and if enough evidence is found, then TB and his crew should be up on war crime charges if they did take us to war for bogus issues.